Apple AirPods finally released after months of delay, at last solving the iPhone's lack of headphone jack

Apple has finally released the AirPods, its controversial wireless earbuds. The little buds – which look like the company's traditional earphones but have no wires at all and sit in the ears – were unveiled along with the iPhone in September. They were pitched as Apple's fix for the fact that it had dropped the headphone jack from its phones, and the signal of a wireless future. But the AirPods never arrived when they were expected to, leaving some to worry that something had gone seriously wrong. Some reports indicated that it was having trouble making sure that the sound syncronised properly.